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I wrote and sang my own song ‘Grace & Blaise’!

Hi everyone! I hope you are all doing well and are having a great 2025.

For many years now I have enjoyed writing poetry and flash fiction, as well as singing karaoke and making cover songs. So (drumroll please!), I have decided to turn these two interests into writing and performing my own original songs, under the artist name, ‘Donna Darkle’.

The song Grace & Blaise started out as a poem that I wrote in September 2024. It’s a love triangle, with two women obsessed with the same man. The man is an oil painter with a studio located near the cliffs. The women speak of their love of him in this dreamy sunset setting. Yet somehow there is this sense of sadness, a dark event that happened along the way, where the waves came crashing down. The ending? I will leave that up to you to decide, my dearest listeners…

And so, I turned my poem into a melody and sang the song, working with an audio mixer for the final production. You can hear the song below (takes you to my new YouTube channel ‘Donna Darkle’). Darkle means ‘becoming dark’ or ‘moving towards gloomy’ – a journey my writing never fails to take. Also, below I have posted the poem/lyrics (also available in the YouTube video description). I do hope you enjoy listening! If you are on YouTube, please feel free to like and subscribe. The channel is in its early days and I can do with some help to make it grow! Thank you 🙏 I will still be writing and posting here on alittlebirdtweets too! Catch you soon everyone. Much Love!

Grace & Blaise by Donna Darkle

Lyrics:

Mmm…

Dreams crash on the dark shore

I recall you here before

Oil sunsets bright bold

Brush strokes of champagne gold, well controlled

Paint spills on the tiled floor

Were you ever here before?

Blues, eyes blink, are on hold

Composition feels old, as we unfold

And Blaise was crazy over you

Septembers’ moon, great timelapse view

She was idolizing you

Craved the gold, got ultra marine blue

Mmm…

Paints crash on the dark shore

I recall you here before

Oil sunsets bright bold

Brush strokes of champagne gold, well controlled

Paint spills on the tiled floor

Were you ever here before?

Blues, eyes blink, are on hold

Composition feels old, as we unfold

And Grace was crazy over you

Septembers’ moon, great timelapse view

She was idolizing you

Craved the gold, got ultra marine blue

Dreams crash on the dark shore

I recall you here before

Oil sunsets bright bold

Brush strokes of champagne gold, well controlled

Paint spills on the dark floor

Were you ever here before?

Blues, eyes blink, are on hold

Composition feels old

They are crazy over you

Septembers’ moon, great timelapse view

They are idolizing you

Craved the gold, got ultra marine blue

And they sang…

Gold should shower over me

Blue moon fades away in dreams

Like the stirring apple sea

Can I be your muse for free?

In your dreams

They are crazy over you

Septembers’ moon, great timelapse view

They are idolizing you

Craved the gold, got ultra marine blue.

🩶

©DonnaDarkle

#donnadarkle #donnadarklemusic

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